Chapter 166 Hunting in the Mountains

Don't break the pheasant eggs.

In order not to attract attention, Liu Yinyin placed the pheasant eggs and milk mushrooms under the basket and covered them with wild vegetables.

Jiang Cuihua was slightly startled when she heard this, and carefully opened the wild vegetables to take a look...

Seeing the eggs underneath, she was overjoyed: "Did you pick them up in the mountains?"

These green-shelled eggs are small and look like wild chicken eggs from the mountains.

In fact, there were quite a lot of pheasant eggs on the mountain in previous years.

In the past two years, because villagers have been frequently digging wild vegetables on the nearby hills, the number of pheasants on the mountains has decreased a lot.

Liu Yinyin hummed and said, "I still have more than 30 pheasant eggs left. These are for you to eat, so they won't go bad."

I don’t know how long the pheasant eggs on the mountain have been there, so I’d better eat them while I can.

Jiang Cuihua also understood this logic and did not refuse.

Liu Yinyin called Gu Yanyan to go home.

For dinner, Liu Yinyin made fried salted pork with milk mushrooms and fried pheasant eggs with wild vegetables.

The staple food is corn cobs.

Gu Cheng came back early today and finished dinner before it got dark.

Gu Cheng was thinking about going to the village chief's house and talking to him about going hunting in the mountains.

He wants to go hunting tomorrow, and tomorrow is Sunday, so he has a day off.

Since we have decided to go hunting in the mountains, we should get things done as soon as possible.

Liu Yinyin asked him, "Can a girl go with us?"

To be honest, she also wanted to go to the mountains, if not to do anything else, just to dig wild vegetables. There must be a lot of wild vegetables in the deep mountains.

Gu Cheng didn't want to think like that. They didn't go there specifically to pick wild vegetables.

It would take too much time to take a group of women from the village with us.

But what Liu Yinyin said also makes sense. There are many wild vegetables in the deep mountains. It is a good thing for the villagers to stock up more wild vegetables at this time.

By then, even if the harvest is poor, the villagers will not have nothing to eat.

After thinking for a while, Gu Cheng said, "Forget about tomorrow. Let's go to the mountain first to see if there are any prey. If not, I'll take you to the mountain to dig wild vegetables when I have time later."

You can discuss this matter with Liu Changquan. There are many wild vegetables in the mountains.

Villagers can organize themselves and go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables together.

Of course... first we have to eliminate the danger.

Liu Changquan had been waiting to go hunting in the mountains for a long time. When Gu Cheng mentioned it, he agreed without hesitation.

The young and strong people in the village who wanted to go hunting were notified overnight.

Let's set out early tomorrow morning and go hunting in the mountains together.

There was a famine in the village, and many people wanted to go hunting in the mountains.

Early the next morning, a group of people were waiting at the foot of the mountain. There were about forty or fifty of them, all strong men in the village who earned work points.

Almost every household has someone involved.

Someone from the Liu family also came. When Liu Mingyuan heard that Gu Cheng was going to the mountains to hunt, he insisted on going with him.

Liu Yinyin packed some water and dry food for Gu Cheng to take to the mountain, and said patiently, "Safety first, don't go too far."

"Don't worry." Gu Cheng didn't dare to take any risks with so many villagers, so he just wandered around the outskirts of the mountains.

It doesn't matter if there is no prey, safety is the most important thing.

When everyone had gathered, the group headed up the mountain in a mighty procession.

"What a joke these people are! Gu Cheng finally gets a day off, but he still has to take them to the mountains to hunt." After the people walked away, Jiang Cuihua couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.

She felt sorry for her son-in-law, and secretly, Jiang Cuihua didn't want Gu Cheng to take the villagers hunting.

Going up the mountain to hunt is no joke, it's very dangerous.

What if something goes wrong?

The lady's family has enough food, so there is no need for them to take risks in the mountains just for a little meat.

Moreover, not to mention Gu Cheng, if something happens to other people in the village, will they turn around and accuse them of going to the mountains to hunt?

In short, who would be willing to do such a thankless job, except for the kind-hearted girls from the bride's family.

Liu Yinyin was quite optimistic: "At worst, I won't go next time."

If someone is really being unreasonable, they will have reason to refuse your help next time you ask them for help.

It was just dawn.

Liu Yinyin wanted to go to the county seat today. Gu Cheng happened to be off work and had a bicycle at home.

It is also convenient for her to go to the county town by bicycle.

"Go if you want to. I'll take Yanyan away." Jiang Cuihua said.

Compared to going up the mountain to hunt, going to the county town to trawl for supplies is a piece of cake.

Liu Yinyin put fifty eggs, a rabbit, a pheasant, and ten pounds of salted meat in a basket.

The eggs were all laid by chickens at home, so she didn't take any wild hen eggs with her. She wasn't sure if any of them were bad, so she kept them for herself.

The salted meat and marinated meat at home have been dried and packed into two sacks, weighing nearly 300 kilograms.

Gu Cheng wanted to exchange the two hundred kilograms for food.

The rest will be kept for Liu Yinyin to exchange for supplies.

It was still early when I rode my bike to the county seat.

Liu Yinyin first went to find Zhang Jinhua with the basket.

Aunt Zhou used to exchange a lot of pork for bacon during the Chinese New Year, but she might not buy so much salted meat now.

Zhang Jinhua and her husband both work in the hospital. They are well off and would definitely spend money on meat if they have it.

Because it was still early, Zhang Jinhua happened to be at home.

The yard of Zhang Jinhua's house is about the same size as that of Liu Yinyin's house, but like Aunt Zhou's house, a room was built in the open space in the yard.

Otherwise there won’t be enough room for everyone at home.

Zhang Jinhua's family consists of seven people, including the couple, their parents-in-law, and three children.

"......Yinyin, come in quickly." Seeing that it was Liu Yinyin who came, Zhang Jinhua was quite excited.

There's nothing I can do. Life has been hard at home lately and I haven't bought pork for a long time.

Liu Yinyin didn't say anything more and just showed her what was in the basket.

She brought twenty eggs, a pheasant, and two strips of salt meat.

Seeing so many good things, Zhang Jinhua smiled even more happily.

She said, "It would be nice if you could come to the county more often."

Eggs and meat. You can’t buy so many good things even at the supply and marketing cooperative.

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "I saved a lot so I brought it to the county town to exchange for some things."

It is definitely not possible to come here often, Liu Yinyin is not in a hurry to make money.

Every time she brought something from the county town, it was already available at home.

Liu Yinyin would not transfer things out of the system at will just to make money. It is always better to be careful.

These things weighed nearly twelve pounds, and Zhang Jinhua accepted them all.

She gave Liu Yinyin fifty yuan.

It is a bit expensive, but there is no other way. The cheap ones are not available. If I don’t buy the expensive ones, I will have nothing to eat.

After leaving Zhang Jinhua's house, Liu Yinyin carried twelve eggs to Ma Xiaolian's house.

But she didn't come here to exchange things. These twelve eggs were given by Liu Yinyin to Ma Xiaolian.

Ma Xiaolian later gave birth to a daughter.

Maybe because she didn’t eat well, Ma Xiaolian didn’t have much milk, so the little girl grew up thin and small.

Not only the child, Ma Xiaolian herself was also thin, with no color on her face.